Today is Wednesday, so this post is about Outstanding Performance.
Effective time management is one key to becoming an outstanding performer. The September issue of Entrepreneur magazine reports the results on an employee survey conducted by Swingline. The survey asked people to report their top time wasters.
Read on for the results…
Top 10 Workplace Time Wasters
- Shifting priorities
- Telephone interruptions
- Lack of direction and/or objectives
- Attempting to do too much
- Drop in visitors
- Ineffective delegation
- Cluttered desk/losing things
- Procrastination and lack of self discipline
- Inability to say “no”
- Meetings
Number 8 -- Procrastination – is my biggest time waster. This is especially true for big projects.
I’ve learned a trick to help me deal with procrastination on starting large projects. I begin a large project at the end of the day. I may get only a little bit done, but when I begin work the next morning, I feel as if I have some momentum. This momentum makes it easier for me to pick up where I left off and get the project finished.
Time is a scarce and non renewable resource – once a moment has passed, it’s gone. You can’t get it back. All outstanding performers know this and manage their time well.
What’s your biggest time waster? How do you deal with it? I’d appreciate it if you would post your thoughts on these questions in the comments section. Your ideas can be helpful to other readers of this blog.
That’s it for today. Thanks for reading. Tomorrow, I’ll be doing a post on personal impact. Log on to my other blog www.CommonSenseGuy.com for common sense advice on leading people and running a business, and my website www.BudBilanich.com for more common sense.
I’ll see you around the web, and at Alex’s Lemonade Stand.
Bud
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